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Patented March 5. 867.

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WILLIAM B. GEDDIS, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 62,540, dated Illarch 5, 1857.

IMEROVED GRESSET 0R BARREL HEATER.

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TO ALL WHOM IT'MAY CONCERN:

-Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. GEDDIS, of Rochester, in the county ofMonroe, and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulimprovements in Gressets or Barrel Heaters; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full and exact description thereof, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section, taken in the line a: a7, fig.3.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section, taken in. the line 3 3 fig.3.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section taken in the line 2 z, fig. 1.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in cressets orbarrel heaters for coopers use, and the invention consists in acylindrical cresset stove, the, upper part of which is provided with anair-heating chamber and fines to increase the heating power of the upperportion of the stove, so that it shall give out a degree of heat by hotair to equalize, or nearly so, the radiation from the lower portion,which holds the fire, and thereby heat the barrel uniformly from top tobottom; the said heating chamber taking in air through a supply pipe orpipes which run down within the fire-chamber and pass out through thebottom of the stove, where they terminate, and discharges their heatedair to the upper part of the barrel, through a series of pipes or fluesradiating horizontally from the said heating chamber; the barrel beingevenly and rapidly heated thereby, without being burned, and without anysmoke coming in contact with it. The invention also consists in animproved adjustable stove-pipe connection for the top' of the stove,combined with a barrel cap or cover, the whole operating in such amanner that the stove-pipe'connectiou is made with the stove and thecover placed over the barrel, or vice verse, by a single operation andwith the greatest facility,as hereinafter explained.

A A, in the accompanying drawings, indicates a cylindrical cressetstove, having an air-heating chamber, 13, located in its upper portion.This chamber is supplied with cold air from beneath the stove by a pipeor pipes, b b, fig. 1, which runs glown through the fire-chamber A andterminates below the stove. The chamber B discharges the heated airagainst theinner upper parts of the barrel .G, by means of conical tubesor flues c 0 c. The rear part of the stove has a vertical partition, I),figs. 2 and 3, forming a downward line for taking the smoke from the topof the stove, when the pipe E Ff, fig. 2, is in use. F is a verticalstove pipe, having a branch pipe or elbow, F F to give a direct draught,and is arranged to turn freely in a fixed pipe, f, at its upper end, andon part E of the stove, fig. 2, so that the branch pipe F F 'may form acrane and be swung from side to side, to remove the cover from over thefurnace, as hereafter described. The hanging part F of this pipe hasresting in it an adjustable connecting section pipe, E, which slidesvertically up and down, and the said section F has a barrel cover, H,attached, and its lower end has a flaring termination, Ii. The slidingpipe l and cover H are suspended so as to make a part of the branchpipeF F by means of cords, k k, fig. 1, and counterbalance weights, K K,the cords passing over pulleys, jj, on the arms J J, projecting frompipe F, and by means of which the cover H and pipe F are moved easily upor down, and remain in any position 'in which they are placed, and maythen be swung around like a crane. The stove A has a short pipe, I, atits top, in which is a damper, z, figs. 1 and 2. G is the barrel, and gg the truss hoops.

The operation is as follows: A fire is lighted in the chamber A and thebarrel shell G placed over the stove, resting on the ledge or projectingbase an of the stove; the damper t' is then opened, and the branch pipeis swung over the barrel, and the cover H depressed until it rests uponthe upper end of the barrel, and the pipes F 71, and I, make aconnection. The smoke now passes directly through the branch pipe intothe main pipe or chimney, f,but when the branch pipe is disconnected andthe damper z'closed, then it passes to the chimney indirectly, by theway of the channel 0 e E and pipe F. The fire being in the lower portionA of the stove. the tendency is to give that part of the barrel thegreatest portion of heat from radiation; but this tendency iscounteracted by the employment of th heating chamber 13 andfines c 0,whereby the upper part of the store has its heating surface greatlyincreased, and air flowing up through the pipe or pipes b 6, passes outof the tines c e c in a highly heated state, and the heating power ofthe lower portion of the stove is thereby balanced, and the barrelheated uniformly from top to bottom. This method of distributing theheat evenlyto the barrel may be used with only the smoke pipe 0 E Ff orwith the adjustable pipe F l Ff only; however. I consider the use ofboth of these pipes as more convenient- I'llld prei'erable, since, whenthe barrel is being inserted or removed, the direct draught. may beclosed and the smoke not trouble the operator. The weight of the cover Hand pipe F is so evenly balanced by the weights K K, that they remain ina depressed or elevated position without any fastening, and are readilymoved up or down. By these means I produce a barrel heater which iseasily operated, and does its work in a neat and efficient manner. Itwill be observed that there is the greatest facility of inserting andremoving the barrel by the raising of the cover H, and at the same timeno obstruction is made to the draught.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The cresset stove A, having an air-chamber B, fiucs c c,andsupplypipe or pipes b b, for giving the sides of the stove auniform heatingpower, in connection with a single smoke pipe I F F Ff or c E Ff, orboth, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. In connection with the stove A, the barrel cover H, and adjustablepipe F constructed in one piece, and making suitable connection with thesection I and pipe F, substantially as and for the purpose hereinspecified.

3. The stove A B b c c, pipes E F F F F f, cover H, and coun'terbalancesK K, all constructed and arranged substantially in the manner and forthe purpose setforth. I

4. The construction and arrangement of the pipe F F F and F in such amanner as to perform the double oflicc of a smoke pipe and crane, as.herein set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

WM. 13. EDDIS.

Witnesses:

.J. A. Davis,

FRED. A. HATCH.

